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Wednesday 29 June 2005
Victorian Human Rights Consultation Committee chaired by the Centre Director releases its Community Discussion paper and Summary
Wednesday 29 June 2005
Centre Director to speak on 9 June with former Prime Minister Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC, CH at the Law Institute of Victoria at HumanWrites 3
Sunday 26 June 2005
Centre Director delivers Fulbright Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne on Balancing National Security and Human Rights: Lessons from Australia. Extract published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Adelaide Advertiser and The Age
Wednesday 22 June 2005
Alex Conte from the University of Canterbury (NZ) visit the Faculty of Law and Centre to work on "A Comparative Study of the Interface between Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights: Lessons for New Zealand"
Monday 20 June 2005
George Williams, Centre Director on ABC Radio`s World Today on ASIO and terrorism
Monday 20 June 2005
Ben Saul writes in The Australian on liberalism and immigration detention
Monday 20 June 2005
Sean Brennan speaks on Treaties and Justice at Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Conversations Talk Blak series
Wednesday 15 June 2005
Centre Director appears on ABC Radio`s The National Interest on a Charter of Human Rights for Victoria
Friday 10 June 2005
Bryan Mercurio and Rebecca LaForgia write a comment for Australian Policy Online on the need for open and transparent dispute settlement in Australia's FTAs
Sunday 5 June 2005
Andrew Lynch joins the Centre as Deputy Director and Project Director of the Terrorism and Law Project
Tuesday 31 May 2005
Centre Associate Megan Davis has written a background paper on the "Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights" for the National Reconciliation Planning Workshop run by Reconciliation Australia 30-31st May attended by Prime Minister John Howard
Tuesday 31 May 2005
Bryan Mercurio publishes an article evaluating the impact of the Australia-US FTA on the provision of health services in Australia. The article can be downloaded free of charge at SSRN
Monday 30 May 2005
Treaty launched by Peter Andren MP at the Sydney Writer`s Festival. His remarks are now available
Thursday 26 May 2005
Sean Brennan writes for The Age on the treaty issue. (For details on the new co-authored book Treaty published by Federation Press see here)
Wednesday 25 May 2005
Centre Director speaks on ABC Radio`s PM and writes with Ben Saul in the Sydney Morning Herald and Courier Mail about extending ASIO`s anti-terrorism powers
Wednesday 25 May 2005
Brochure available for CLE event on Advanced Administrative Law: Testing the Boundaries of Government Liability and Judicial Review
Monday 23 May 2005
Bill of Rights Project Director Ben Saul writes on torture for the Sydney Morning Herald
Sunday 22 May 2005
Centre Director writes in The Age and Courier Mail on the Takeover of Ports by the Commonwealth
Friday 20 May 2005
Lara Kostakidis-Lianos and Centre Director write on Bills of Responsibilities in the Alternative Law Journal
Wednesday 18 May 2005
Centre Associate Ben Golder and Centre Director, Professor George Williams write on legal definitions of terrorism for the Australian Financial Review